I'm a judge for Mass Challenge, as well as the Harvard Business School competition, and I've noticed that many entrepreneurs don't know what market size means. Let me call out two of the most common mistakes, which can be the difference between recognizing a real...
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Leading by Example: Walking Your Talk … Under a Magnifying Glass
In a leadership position, even the small stuff … isn’t. People watch your every move. Get used to it.
Ten Cultural Career Lies
I believed these lies for most of my life. Recently, the conventional wisdom started seeming suspect. I called several mid-career classmates and asked about their successes and failures. Upon close examination, much of what I had believed to be true about careers did not seem to hold.
Overcoming Email Overload
This article, originally printed in Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge gives several different techniques for helping get email under control. The article was one of the most-read articles at HBS, has been translated into more than 7 languages, and reprinted in Entrepreneur.com, and several magazines.
Betrayal of Users. Market forces just don’t work.
Chuckle. I deleted WHISPER because it was vapid beyond all belief, and not particularly interesting. It turns out that the stuff people say if they're anonymous is droll, predictable, and mainly drivel. Except ... it turns out that Whisper was tracking people after...
Laziness Expands to the Maximum
Are you lazy? How lazy? I think technology is giving us opportunities to take laziness to an entirely new level! I remember life before the Internet took over. Many things have changed. Now we can buy stuff online. We can watch movies and TV shows on our computer...
Engage People at Work with a Simple Framework
If people in your team or at your company are just going through the motions, get them engaged. This podcast presents a simple framework for helping people re-engage with their jobs at work.
Brainpower boosters? Not so fast…
Being in the self-help space to some degree, I see an awful lot of products designed to "boost your brainpower." This is an interesting value proposition, but it's incomplete. You need to ask: how will you use the boosted brainpower? What will you expect it to do that...
Social Media and “The Good Life”
I just spent a week camping at a festival. We were in a far away place, with no power outlets and only spotty cell phone coverage. It seemed best to put my iPhone away and spend the entire time disconnected. Logging into Facebook, checking my email, and returning to...
What makes a good driving question for life?
If you were only allowed to ask one question of yourself to move you into action each morning, what one question would have the greatest chance of creating the best life for you? In a recent Get-it-Done Guy episode, I explored the nature of using driving questions to...